294. Click On This Ad To Save This Child
June 9th, 2025
1 hr 15 secs
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Lords:
- Alex
- Shannon
Topics:
- The rapid proliferation of identical mobile games
- Randomly generated time traveler loadout
- Turning your body into 3D printer filament after you die
- Girls Only Want One Thing, Isabel Correra
Microtopics:
- Alien Clay.
- Gravity Falls.
- Tryharding at Duolingo.
- Removing the popsicle sticks in the right order or the king dies in lava.
- Writing a solitaire game generator and uploading 30,000 solitaires to the app store.
- Ads that are not even pretending to not be falsely advertising to you.
- Mobile game advertisers all pretending that their games are the same non-existent game genre.
- Yeah! You Want "Those Games," Right? So Here You Go! Now, Let's See You Clear Them!
- People saying "that ad for a game where you pull out popsicle sticks until a king doesn't die looks pretty good but when I click on it it's a completely different game."
- Lying to consumers in the 80s vs. lying to consumers today.
- Ads that are just two horrifying images to get your adrenalin spiking.
- Screaming Tamagotchi.
- The Paw Patrol diagetically being funded by real life Paw Patrol merch sales.
- Maximizing emotional whiplash when it doesn't matter which two emotions they are.
- Having a week to prepare for a one way trip to Northern Italy in 1326.
- Going on a trip and bringing along your undeveloped Broca's area.
- Bootlegging reproducing GMO crop seeds in Renaissance Italy.
- Wizard/Prophecy Person.
- 21st Century Traveling Merchants.
- Bringing your jar of penicillin mold to the 14th century.
- Being stranded in Renaissance Italy and becoming travelling minstrels.
- Larger bearded guy that wears suspenders (under a graphic tee)
- When were you born? The 14th century. Fuck you.
- Bringing a snack to the spooky extraterrestrial from the planet Vulcan who lives in the woods.
- Big ol' dogs.
- Non-electronic megaphones.
- A little top you can spin that's made of grandpa.
- A magic genie that can grant any wish as it's for a small striated plastic trinket.
- Getting turned into Redstone after you die.
- A poorly-made fidget spinner that used to be your husband.
- Shipping ashes and asking that ashes be put into things.
- The sloughed off skin cells coating everything you send in the mail.
- A shitty fidget spinner that just happens to have some human remains in it.
- Where human composting is allowed.
- Places it's no longer legal to bury a body.
- The problem with imbuing symbols with value.
- An alternative wedding ring that you switch to as necessary.
- A plant that is a metaphor for death.
- Grandpa living forever by being repeatedly melted down and 3D printed into a new toy when you get sick of the old once.
- Bringing 3D printing back to 14th century Italy to revolutionize reliquaries.
- Giving the world both Frog Fractions and Topics.
- How many people you pass on the street each day are wearing suspenders under their shirt.
- Hip Clips Style Under Ups.
- A poem that's in the bucket twice.
- Love is a seed and lust is a bird ravenous for seeds.
- Burying the word sorry and seeing what grows.
- Poetry that's just a paragraph of text.
- What you're going to be if you eat the fruit of the sorry fruit.
- Trying to imit inimitable things.
- There's a lot of different women and they all want different things. (Except they all want to travel back in time.)
- My Mother's Savage Daughter.
- Girls only want one thing: to not be found on the Internet.